Switzerland‚ Moscow. Birth name: Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky Born: 16 Decembef 1866 Moscow Died: 13 December 1944 (aged 77) Neuilly-sur-Seine Nationality: Russian Field: Painting Training: Academy of Fine Arts‚ Munich Movement: Expressionism; abstract art A list of his paintings: * A Conglomerate 1943 * All Saints Picture 1911 * Around the Circle * At Rest 1008 * Autumn in Bavaria 1908 * Beach Baskets in Holland 1904 * Black and Violet 1923
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wHAT IS ART? Art is that which brings life in harmony with the beauty of the beauty of the world. – Plato Art is the medium by which the artist communicates with his fellow. – Van Dyke Art is anything made or done by man that affects or moves us so that we see or feel the beauty in it. – Collins and Riley Art is taken from the Italian word “artis”‚ which means craftsmanship‚ skill‚ mastery of form and ideas‚ between materials and techniques. – A. Tan Art is a reflection or a mirror of beauty
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BMS122: APPRECIATING LEISURE LIFESTYLES Types of Art: Main Periods 1. 2. 3. Visual Arts Appreciation Part 2 4. 5. 6. 7. Pre-historic Ancient Medieval (Middle Ages) Renaissance Baroque / Rococo 19th Century 20th Century 6. 19th Century Art 19th Century Art: Neo-classicism Includes: 1. 2. 3. 4. Neo-classicism Romanticism Realism Impressionism Rebirth to the art of ancient Rome and Greece‚ and the Renaissance Costumes‚ settings‚ and details depicted with much
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Name 3simplicity of an African ritual mask. The gaze of the black deformed eyes is directed into the distance or deeply inside of herself. The strange asymmetry of her eyes hints to some painful disharmony in her soul. The sharp geometry of the eyes‚ nose‚ mouth‚ and the unrefined ear iscontrasted with a more rounded outline of her broad body that leans forward. The bulkiness of her silhouette is emphasized with a loose coat and the large hands that rest heavily on the folds of her baggy skirt. The
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Quotes: 1. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties... – hamlet 2. Man is born free‚ yet everywhere he is in chains. Rousseau 3. Modern society is rotten even at its roots. Rouseeau 4. Get back to Nature … Noble Savage .. SOCIAL CONTRACT - rouseeau 5. Reason is supreme . Human reason can solve every problem facing humankind. - descartes 6. A work of art is a public dream – frued – Oedipus complex 7. We live in an ordered‚ rational‚ understandable
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Egyptian Architecture It is as difficult to condense in one short chapter the sequence of architectural history in Egypt as it is impossible to over-estimate the interest that it offers to artists and historians. For there is not one period in History that is not richly represented here by characteristic and wonderful monuments. --In order to refrain from becoming absorbed by one or other of those periods‚ we will arrange the monuments under six chronological headings: The Pharaonic Times.
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The history of graphic art and the cycle of politicization‚ depoliticization and then repoliticization span the late 19th century through and into the 21st century. Evolving from humble beginnings into the commercial behemoth it’s become to today this essay will explore graphic design’s evolution and the politics that affected this growing art movement during this influential timeline. Graphic design set its first roots in Germany in 1455 with the introduction of the Blackletter typeface and Johannes
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master at drawing‚ painting‚ sculpting‚ graphics‚ ceramics‚ and theatrical design. His career spanned nearly the entire era of modern art‚ starting with the realism era in the late nineteenth century and drawing to a close with the advent of neo-Expressionism‚ a style inspired by Picasso’s last works. Picasso was continually developing new ways of expressing himself. His styles included his Rose‚ Blue‚ Cubist‚ Surrealistic periods and more. After his cubist period‚ Picasso would come to depend on the
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during the impressionism period of 1870-90‚ Van Gogh during the post impressionism period of 1885-1905‚ Ernest Ludwig Kirchner representing the German Expressionism between 1905 and 1925‚ Viadimir Tatlin’s Abstracts from 1907 forward‚ Pablo Picasso’s Cubism from 1907-1915 to name a few. Further into the 1900’s bought Dada‚ Surrealism‚ Abstract Expressionism‚ Pop Art‚ Optical Art and Minimalism. I would define Modern Art as art that was developed from the development of exploratory ideas in the individual
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Aaron Douglas’ Crucifixion Throughout much of Modernism many artists were influenced and informed by the work of exotic regions throughout the world‚ more specifically Africa. African Art would influence much of the Modern Movements from the latter part of the Nineteenth and the beginning of the Twentieth Centuries. Much is said of the artists within the Harlem Renaissance‚ and how it directly reflects the influence of Africana upon their art. Often times‚ this work is neglected to be considered
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